Abstract

CAVALCANTI, Ana Claudia Dantas. Construction of Education Policies for Youths and Adults in Pernambuco: what is the rationality?. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2019, vol.44, e31856.  Epub Nov 11, 2020. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644431856.

This paper aims to analyze how citizen participation, in the field of dialogic rationality, permeated the collective construction of public policies for youths and adults education, in the period 2012-2015 in Pernambuco. It adopts a theoretical framework that considers the citizen in the field of dialogical rationality. This research uses the qualitative methodology and presentes, as source of data collection, semistructured interviews involving education professionals. The evaluation of the data is based on the content analysis of Bardin (1977). The results indicate that the public policies for youth and adult education are guided by a managerialist logic, which weakens the possibilities for dialogue and participation (Habermas, 2012). Despite the weakening of participation, subjects in this field, sometimes, use autonomy in an attempt to reverse the dominant logic.

Keywords : Youth and Adult Education; Citizen Participation; Managerial State.

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